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Job 8

Job 8:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For inquire
sha'al (Hebrew #7592)
a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand
KJV usage: ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, X earnestly, enquire, + greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, + salute, X straitly, X surely, wish.
Pronounce: shaw-al'
Origin: or shael {shaw-ale'}
, I pray thee, of the former
ri'shown (Hebrew #7223)
from 7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
KJV usage: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Pronounce: ree-shone'
Origin: or riishon {ree-shone'}
ri'shown (Hebrew #7223)
from 7221; first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
KJV usage: ancestor, (that were) before(-time), beginning, eldest, first, fore(-father) (-most), former (thing), of old time, past.
Pronounce: ree-shone'
Origin: or riishon {ree-shone'}
age
dowr (Hebrew #1755)
from 1752; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
KJV usage: age, X evermore, generation, (n-)ever, posterity.
Pronounce: dore
Origin: or (shortened) dor {dore}
, and prepare
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
thyself to the search
cheqer (Hebrew #2714)
examination, enumeration, deliberation
KJV usage: finding out, number, (un-)search(-able, -ed, out, -ing).
Pronounce: khay'-ker
Origin: from 2713
of their fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
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Ministry on This Verse

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enquire.
Job 12:12• 12With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. (Job 12:12)
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Job 15:10,18• 10Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
 18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden; (Job 15:10,18)
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Job 32:6‑7• 6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are aged; wherefore I was timid, and feared to shew you what I know.
 7I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom. (Job 32:6‑7)
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Deut. 4:32• 32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been anything as this great thing is, or if anything hath been heard like it? (Deut. 4:32)
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Deut. 32:7• 7Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee. (Deut. 32:7)
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Psa. 44:1• 1To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction. O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old: (Psa. 44:1)
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Psa. 78:3‑4• 3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:
 4We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done. (Psa. 78:3‑4)
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Isa. 38:19• 19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. (Isa. 38:19)
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Rom. 15:4• 4For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. (Rom. 15:4)
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1 Cor. 10:11• 11Now all these things happened to them as types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. (1 Cor. 10:11)
• The light of the past (vers. 8-10). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• Bildad refers not merely to his own experience as had Eliphaz, but calls upon all the gathered wisdom of the past for confirmation. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;